Improvement in butter-tubs



A. C..- SAWYER, or C,A-NT,oN1,NEWYoRK.

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Letters Patent No. 94,917, dated September 14, 1869.

lIMenormen/:ruw IN` BUTTER-Tons.

The Schedule referred to n these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

/Toiall whom it may concern r y Be it known that I, A; C. SAWYER, of Canton, St. Lawrence county, State of New York, have invented l a new and impl'oxedlllode of Securing the Covers to Butter-Tubs; andlI do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings7 and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The vmat-ure of my invention consists .in securing .covers to .buttertubs by .means of twol ears, two

edges of the button.

Figure 4 `is also atop view, showing the position of the levers and button after thebutton has been tumed,

completingtlle fastening.

i Figure 5` is alongitudinal section, taken from A to 4B, fig. 1, showingtheposition of the levers as raised by thefulcruui over the edge of theoover; this ligure `also shows the side ofthe button as turned to receive y the ends of the levers;V also, the mode of securing the ears to the tub by the hooks S S.

' Figure a side viewof the concave or U-shaped button, taken on a line fi'om C to D, iig. 4.

Like letters refer to like parts.

F is a tub, constructed in the usual way., provided with two ears, E E, at opposite sides, as shown in fig.5.' i

The cover is provided with a flange, that lits tight to the inside of the tub, as shown at I T, iig. 5. j

After the cover is phtin' place, insert thelever's 'L A into'the ears E E. Then force them down upon the cover, aslseen atv fig. 2. 'Pheu .crowd them under the edge o f the button H, as seen at fig. 3.' Then turn the button, as shown at fig. 4, and the fastening .is done.

J J J are small pins driven into the cover,- to prevent the button from being turned too far back to receive the levers. f

Claim.

What I claim as new and nsefuhand desireto se- The mode of securing the covers to butter-tubs by the use of two short levers. meeting inthe centre and secured by the'use of the concave or inverted U-shaped button, with its ange or anges S, operating for the purpose and in the manner substantially asset forth.

v A.. C. SAWYER. Witnesses;

J oHN Home, WILLIAM Donor.. 

